No Wilmington Coup: Effects for Civil Rights?

[Desmond Hume]

I literally just learned about this event for the first time. In 1898 white supremacists in Wilmington, NC successfully overthrew the local government by force and carried out a massacre of the city's black residents. The replacement of the Republican-Populist government with a Democratic one contributed to the imposition of Jim Crow laws which disenfranchised black voters in North Carolina. Apparently, a state commission ruled a few years ago that this incident should be considered a coup d'etat, the only such coup in American history. (Here's a link to an article about the state panel's findings: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...053102080.html)

So, WI the Wilmington coup had been thwarted somehow? How might this have impacted race relations in the South and the civil rights movement?

[Faeelin]

Sadly, probably just gets delayed. This is just one in a long, long line of White Southern efforts to use terrorism and violence to control their society.